Category Archives: Personal Freedom

Stress During Peaceful Times

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed something odd about emotional work. Sometimes when I focus on letting go of negative emotions, I have a hard time doing so. In other situations when I’m not focused on emotions, negative emotions … Continue reading

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Reflections on My Healing Journey

I started my self-improvement journey in 2017. That journey went to the next level in late 2020 when I started practicing the letting go technique that I first learned from reading Letting Go by David Hawkins in 2019. While 2020 … Continue reading

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Let Me Not Explain

Explanations are a weird thing for me. In some cases, I enjoy talking at length about particular things. In other cases, however, I hate doing that very thing. Here’s what I mean. I can talk all day about things I … Continue reading

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Incentives vs Healing

There are plenty of proposed solutions for the many problems plaguing the world. From what I’ve seen, they broadly fall into one of two categories, which I’ll call the incentives approach and the healing approach. The incentives approach uses a … Continue reading

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Don’t Take Fun Too Seriously

There’s a concept in martial arts called Shu-Ha-Ri. In short, it’s about the progression of learning from the beginning stage to the expert stage. It’s been in the back of my head since I first learned about it a while … Continue reading

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Ella Enchanted, Fawning, and Boundaries

Many years ago, I saw parts of a movie called Ella Enchanted (some spoilers to follow). It follows a woman named Ella who was cursed as a baby to be obedient to a fault. She does whatever anyone tells her … Continue reading

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My Big Reset

In Toy Story 3, Buzz Lightyear gets reset to demo mode. This makes him forget his friends, causes him to speak and act as he did for most of the first Toy Story movie, and makes him subservient to the … Continue reading

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Mid-Year Goal Check-in

Every December, I review how I did with my goals for the previous year. While I’m still going to do that this December, I wanted to take a look at how my goals for this year have gone so far … Continue reading

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More About the Calm After the Storm

Since I live in Florida, I’ve long dealt with hurricanes. Fortunately, the worst I and my close family members tend to experience are some temporary power outages and lots of debris from fallen branches. When this happens, time seems to … Continue reading

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A Letter to Myself

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